Data Architect Contracts in London

Data Architect
England > London

The median Data Architect daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 212 196 224
Rank change year-on-year -16 +28 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Architect 171 201 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.26% 1.23% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.31% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 151 202
10th Percentile £481 £500 £539
25th Percentile £548 £556 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £688 £700
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -1.79% -
75th Percentile £725 £791 £775
90th Percentile £815 £913 £825
England median daily rate £600 £675 £675
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £118.86 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.31% +237.19% -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £51.98 £60.00 £64.50
% change year-on-year -13.37% -6.98% +29.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,666 15,334 22,894
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 94.19% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,581 10,873 16,762
10th Percentile £326 £348 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 200 244
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.48 £18.56
25th Percentile £22.93 £22.00 £24.06
Median hourly rate £29.54 £33.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% -11.81% +13.64%
75th Percentile £50.50 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £81.58
England median hourly rate £25.32 £45.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -43.73% +5.88% +66.67%

Data Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Data Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architect in London over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Architect in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Architect in London

Data Architect
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Architect within the London region over the 6 months to 5 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -5 19 £565 -1.74% 13
West London -1 1 £625 -10.71% 6
North London - 1 - -
Data Architect
England

Data Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 5 August 2025, Data Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Architect in the job title.

1 101 (59.06%) Data Architecture
2 97 (56.73%) Data Modelling
3 78 (45.61%) Azure
4 73 (42.69%) Data Governance
5 60 (35.09%) AWS
6 56 (32.75%) ETL
7 55 (32.16%) Finance
8 54 (31.58%) SQL
9 45 (26.32%) Migration
10 44 (25.73%) Social Skills
11 40 (23.39%) Data Warehouse
11 40 (23.39%) Analytics
12 36 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
12 36 (21.05%) Snowflake
12 36 (21.05%) GCP
13 33 (19.30%) Python
14 31 (18.13%) Power Platform
15 30 (17.54%) Data Lake
16 28 (16.37%) Databricks
16 28 (16.37%) Security Cleared
17 27 (15.79%) Data Strategy
17 27 (15.79%) Roadmaps
18 26 (15.20%) Metadata
18 26 (15.20%) Data Quality
19 25 (14.62%) Data Integration
19 25 (14.62%) Power BI
20 24 (14.04%) Data Management
21 23 (13.45%) Microsoft
21 23 (13.45%) SC Cleared
21 23 (13.45%) Data Transformation

Data Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.09%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.58%) Endur
2 1 (0.58%) Magento
2 1 (0.58%) Maximo
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 78 (45.61%) Azure
2 60 (35.09%) AWS
3 36 (21.05%) GCP
3 36 (21.05%) Snowflake
4 31 (18.13%) Power Platform
5 15 (8.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (7.02%) Collibra
6 12 (7.02%) dbt
7 9 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (5.26%) SaaS
8 7 (4.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (2.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.34%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.34%) Fivetran
11 3 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.75%) Serverless
12 2 (1.17%) Azure Key Vault
12 2 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
12 2 (1.17%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.58%) Network Security
1 1 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.58%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (23.39%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (17.54%) Data Lake
3 26 (15.20%) Metadata
4 25 (14.62%) Power BI
5 18 (10.53%) Data Vault
6 15 (8.77%) BigQuery
7 14 (8.19%) SQL Server
8 11 (6.43%) Big Data
9 9 (5.26%) NoSQL
10 8 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (4.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (4.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (3.51%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (3.51%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (3.51%) Tableau
13 5 (2.92%) Data Hub
14 4 (2.34%) Relational Database
14 4 (2.34%) Spark SQL
14 4 (2.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (5.85%) ERwin
2 5 (2.92%) ER Studio
3 4 (2.34%) GitLab
3 4 (2.34%) Liquibase
4 3 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.75%) Maven
5 2 (1.17%) GCC
5 2 (1.17%) JIRA
6 1 (0.58%) Git
6 1 (0.58%) Postman
General
1 55 (32.16%) Finance
2 44 (25.73%) Social Skills
3 19 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 17 (9.94%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.94%) Banking
5 10 (5.85%) Retail
6 8 (4.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.92%) Back Office
8 4 (2.34%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.34%) Legal
8 4 (2.34%) Marketing
9 3 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.75%) Local Government
10 2 (1.17%) Front Office
10 2 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.43%) Kafka
2 7 (4.09%) PySpark
3 5 (2.92%) Spring
3 5 (2.92%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.34%) Middleware
5 3 (1.75%) Hibernate
5 3 (1.75%) JPA
6 2 (1.17%) Jinja
6 2 (1.17%) JSON
6 2 (1.17%) XML
7 1 (0.58%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.58%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.58%) pytest
7 1 (0.58%) REST
7 1 (0.58%) SOAP
7 1 (0.58%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.94%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (2.92%) Low-Code
3 5 (2.92%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.92%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.92%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.92%) Reference Data
3 5 (2.92%) Taxonomies
4 4 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.34%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (1.75%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.17%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.17%) Equities
6 2 (1.17%) NHS
6 2 (1.17%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (59.06%) Data Architecture
2 97 (56.73%) Data Modelling
3 73 (42.69%) Data Governance
4 56 (32.75%) ETL
5 45 (26.32%) Migration
6 40 (23.39%) Analytics
7 36 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
8 27 (15.79%) Data Strategy
8 27 (15.79%) Roadmaps
9 25 (14.62%) Data Integration
10 24 (14.04%) Data Management
11 23 (13.45%) Data Transformation
11 23 (13.45%) Decision-Making
12 19 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
12 19 (11.11%) Physical Data Model
13 17 (9.94%) Data Migration
13 17 (9.94%) Data Security
13 17 (9.94%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (9.36%) Agile
14 16 (9.36%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (31.58%) SQL
2 33 (19.30%) Python
3 14 (8.19%) Java
4 5 (2.92%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.92%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.34%) C
5 4 (2.34%) C++
5 4 (2.34%) Perl
6 2 (1.17%) C#
6 2 (1.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.17%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.17%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.58%) Bash
7 1 (0.58%) Bicep
7 1 (0.58%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.85%) Degree
4 8 (4.68%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.17%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.58%) ISEB
8 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.58%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (15.20%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.60%) GDPR
3 8 (4.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.17%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.58%) GxP
5 1 (0.58%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (1.17%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (16.37%) Databricks
2 23 (13.45%) Microsoft
3 16 (9.36%) Google
3 16 (9.36%) Informatica
4 11 (6.43%) Talend
5 10 (5.85%) Oracle
5 10 (5.85%) SAP
6 4 (2.34%) Sparx
7 2 (1.17%) IBM
7 2 (1.17%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.58%) Adobe
8 1 (0.58%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.58%) Aveksa
8 1 (0.58%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.58%) Foundry
8 1 (0.58%) Palantir
8 1 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.58%) Workday